Description

7. Staphylea

Deciduous branching shrubs with small pentamerous white flowers in drooping axillaryracemes or panicles. Fruit capsular, inflated, membranous, 2- or 3-lobed and 2- or 3-celled, with 1 or more albuminous seeds in each cell. About four species, in temperate Asia, North America, and Europe. The name is derived from
a bunch or cluster.